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Quite the contrary, the world you envision isn't nice to think about at all. It's impractical, inefficient, wildly haphazard, and, worse than that, would produce the exact opposite…

I just confirmed - this book was my first purchase on Amazon. May 24th, 1999. I had just decided to go from undeclared to EECS at Cal and wanted to take a crash course in hardware.…

What specifically did you find objectionable in his list of charities?

These laws are not made to be coherent or actually help people. They are made to curry favor with a particular base. It creates all these super strange situations where it's imposs…

To top this all off, our ability to "put the domestic economy first" through policy is non-existent. Any attempt to fix this "problem", that you accurately described as a problem o…

This isn't textbook Baader–Meinhof, but after 4 decades of never consciously hearing about this fruit I've now encountered it three times in one week: [1] on the allowed low fodmap…

That doesn't seem like a problem - that seems like a feature. Maybe "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" just stuck with me, but a just society doesn't sacrifice the prosperity of …

Pre-uber it was common at McCarren Airport (Las Vegas) that taxis would intentially take you the wrong way to spike their fare. Those who knew would have to demand the driver to no…

Ugh. Sorry to hear that. IMHO the damage done to the kids here is worse than the risks they would face from the virus. Kudos to you for doing what you can to keep your kids connect…

Facebook Kids Messenger is decent (for all the reasons you mentioned), however, I am pessimistic about it being genuinely appealing to kids. It's staying alive because middle-aged …

But what about the driver who doesn't want to be classified as an employee? What right do they have? Less trite - my nephew is in his mid-twenties and appreciates the flexibility t…

This reply is spot on top to bottom. "Who knows what sort of damage it will cause in the Five Eyes countries next time a moral hysteria sweeps through the public..." That moral hys…

Genuine question: how will these countries keep deaths below 10 a week while being completely out of lockdown? Doesn't that rely on a treatment or vaccine?

Fragile systems are generally built using single points of failure. Centrally planned solutions are generally rife with them. I will trust the robustness of a system made up of 327…

"Beaches and rivers belong to all of us." This seems like an arbitrary distinction. What makes you think this and not something like "all geographic features belong to all of us"? …

This is not meant to be snarky - but how are you sure? Are we convinced that those who attend TLJ will perform better than their peers who do not? I agree that dignified education …

Especially in socialist countries.

And it's environment, with 8 of 10 most polluted cities.

As someone who spends 40 hours a week (and 60 - 70 lately) coding Verilog for FPGAs I'm always excited when something domain-specific hits the front page. I have no idea what a PL …

That's not a dumb question at all. The answer is simple: by cramming for logic in between registers. Since you (or at least the tools) are in complete control of the routing, you c…

I find it interesting that Synopsys would attempt to compete directly with Xilinx's System Generator product. The latter is to my knowledge completely endorsed and supported by The…

I agree with your assessment. PR is important to designers and system engineers and architects. C-to-Gates is important to business types.

That's a good question. It's almost impossible to tell objectively. I would say that the Altera tools felt more like circa 2007 Xilinx Tools. They lacked quality control AND maturi…

I moved one of our smaller projects over to Altera because they were first to 28nm plus the local Altera team was willing to help out with porting any device-specific code. I was v…

It being "hard" shouldn't give them a pass on quality control. From the early Project Navigator to ISE to Vivado, Xilinx tools are buggy, poorly documented, and completely unintuit…